The Egmont is a set of incidental music pieces for the 1787 play of the same name by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (of the famous "Commitment" poem). It consists of an overture and nine separate pieces for soprano and full orchestra. Beethoven wrote it between October 1809 and June 1810, and it was premiered on 15 June 1810.
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